Good morning! Already, I've been advised by cdBaby that a number of you swell folks have purchased RBR. Thank you, and I hope that you like it! If you do, please tell your friends about it. However, If you don't, please tell your friends about it. I love honesty!
Now I have a thought about cdBaby's 30 second sound preview of RBR. The song does have several segments to it,and perhaps that's why cdBaby couldn't figure out the one that would give the best feel of the song--I don't know. Personally, I wish they would have concentrated more on the lyric rather than my guitar work, which along with the piano at the end of the song, there would have been plenty of time to listen to the instrumental lead tracks.
Oh well, that's Show Biz. Thanks to all for your interest and support!
Take care, be safe.
Charlie

Hi---again. Talked with cdBaby a few minutes ago, and I am going to have to resubmit my song RBR so I can get Charlie Coe Music back to where it needs to be. Once I do that, it will take a couple of days to get RBR back online. Wow!, Sure fouled that one up.
Meanwhile, I've had inquiries about RBR. No, it's not about Cheetahs or any other wildlife unless you want to include us humans. It's about a guy who is a real jerk and a nice gal who digs him. He knows he's a jerk and tells her---Run Baby Run.
That's all for now.
Be safe, take care
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Salvation Army captain was Paul Revere and the Raiders

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BARNEY LERTEN

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- One member of Paul Revere and the Raiders, the 1960s rock band recognizable to fans by their colonial soldier suits, is still in uniform.

Salvation Army Capt. Ross Allemang saves lives and souls on Portland's Skid Road, and couldn't be happier.



'I don't want to go anyplace else,' said Allemang, co-director with his wife Nancy of the Harbor Light Center near the waterfront.

From an aging building, the center provides Portland's poorest residents with a place to sleep and a chance to kick the drug habit - one the former rock star knows all too well.

Allemang said a 'face-to-face' meeting with Jesus Christ 10 years ago was the turning point in his life.

'It was getting worse and worse and worse,' he said. 'All the money I was making, however much it was, was going to drugs. My family was starving -- I was just an addict, that's all there is to it.

'Only an addict knows that it just hurts too much to stop,' he said. 'But just like the Lord said he would, he took them away.'

Allemang, a 1960 graduate of Beaverton, Ore., High School, joined with a couple of friends to open a nightclub, the Headless Horseman, where Portland's teen-agers could have some fun and hear some music.

It was there that he first met up with Paul Revere, Mark Lindsay and other musicians who were forming a band.

Paul Revere and the Raiders, with Allemang on bass guitar, 'played a sound from L.A. -- nobody here had ever heard it,' Allemang said. 'But for some crazy reason, they loved it.'

The band's first hit single, 'Louie, Louie,' got them a recording contract.

'After a year, things were going really well. We'd made a few singles and people all over the place were hearing about us,' Allemang said.

'I got tired of the music when I started finding other kinds I liked better, like jazz. I also wanted to concentrate more on singing.'

He left the group and enjoyed several successful years with various 'show bands' in the area. But while the group continued its rise to success, including a regular television slot on Dick Clark's 'Where the Action Is,' Allemang's lack of musical expertise eventually led to trouble.

'I was unhappy because I couldn't keep up with the people I was playing music with, so I turned to drugs, which only made me worse.'

A dramatic revelation on a drive with a friend through Klamath Falls 12 years ago changed his life for the better, Allemang said.

'All of a sudden, in the car, I heard this voice say, 'I am the Lord of Hosts and I will not be put aside.''

'Huh?' Allemang replied. The voice repeated itself, he said, and added another message Allemang refused to discuss.

It took another two years before he was able to kick drugs for good. Around that time, his wife picked up a Salvation Army tract on the street and the couple went to a meeting. Impressed by the speaker, as well as the brass band, Allemang began teaching in the army's music camp and later joined the church.

The Allemang's became auxiliary officers and worked at the Salvation Army in The Dalles, Ore., for five years before arriving at the Harbor Light Center in 1980.

'Nancy and I went to see Paul a couple of years ago up in Boise, where he's developing this monstrous mobile home project,' Allemang said.

'He was telling us about a time when he broke open one of the gold records on the wall, put it on the record player and played it -- and it was Andy Williams singing 'Moon River.' It was just another record, sprayed gold.'

But Allemang believes he's found the real thing, among the derelicts of Portland's waterfront.

These are the only pictures of Ross Allemang. Ross and Smitty were co owners of the Headless Horseman in Portland when Mark & Paul were reforming the band in 1963. As you can see, Ross died in 1990.

 As a side note. For the MOST part, this information is correct. But, the first band was The Red Hughes Band. Not The Downbeats as it is listed here. It was obvious who was the leader of this band by the name of the band. Whoever Red Hughes was, it was his band, not Paul's. By the time the name changed, Red was no longer in the band. That was when Mark Lindsay took over as lead singer. And it was Paul & Mark's band from that time going forward. The time period must have been part of 1957 & 1958 also. I am not on anyone's side here either. It just seems to me that this is what happened. And also, it has never been mentioned who was in The Red Hughes Band. If the first Downbeats band were members of the Red Hughes Band. Just sayin' guys! :)

The Red Hughes Band/The Downbeats I (1957/1958)   

Paul Revere - keyboards - b. January 7, 1938, Harvard, Nebraska. 
Robert White - guitar 
Richard White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Red Hughes - vocals 
Dick McGarvin - drums - b. August 27, 1939. 
David Bell - drums 

The Downbeats II (1958) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Robert White - guitar 
Richard White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Dick McGarvin - drums 
David Bell - drums 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax - b. March 9, 1942, Eugene, Oregon - formerly with Freddy Chapman and the Idaho Playboys. 

The Downbeats III (1958 - 1960) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Robert White - guitar 
Richard White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Jerry Labrum - drums 

Paul Revere & The Nightriders(1960) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Richard White - guitar 
Robert White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Jerry Labrum - drums 
Andrea Loper - vocals 
They kept this name for about two weeks before changing it to Paul Revere and The Raiders. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders I (1960 - 1961) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Richard White - guitar 
Robert White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Jerry Labrum - drums 

Album: 
"Like, Long Hair" (1961) - Single: "Like, Long Hair" (instrumental) 
Paul Revere is drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders II (1961) 

Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Richard White - guitar 
Robert White - guitar 
Bill Hibbert - bass 
Jerry Labrum - drums 
Leon Russell - keyboards - replacement for Paul Revere on tour for about two weeks. 
Group disbands. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders III (October 1962 - January 1963) 
(Reformed) 
Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Steve West - guitar 
Ross Allemang - bass - b. January 10, 1943. 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums - b. March 27, 1942. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders IV (January 1963 - May 1963) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Steve West - guitar 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums 
Dick Walker - bass - b. August 10, 1944. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders V (May 1963 - June 1963) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums 
Dick Walker - bass 
Pete Ouellette - guitar - b. February 19, 1945. 
Pete Ouellette later joins Don & The Goodtimes and Aesop & The Fables. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders VI (June 1963 - September 1963) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums 
Dick Walker - bass 
Charlie Coe - guitar - b. November 17, 1945 - formerly with Jack Ely & The Courtmen. 

Paul Revere and The Raiders VII (September 1963 - January 1965) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums 
Drake Levin - guitar - b. Drake Maxwell Levinshevski, August 17, 1946. 
Mike Holiday - bass 

Albums: 
"Paul Revere and The Raiders" (1963) 
"Here They Come" (1964) 
"In the Beginning" (1966) - reissue of 1963 LP "Paul Revere and The Raiders". 

Paul Revere and The Raiders VIII (January 1965 - March 1966) 

Paul Revere - keyboards 
Mark Lindsay - vocals/sax 
Michael "Smitty" Smith - drums 
Drake Levin - guitar 
Philip Volk - bass - b. October 25, 1945. 

Albums: 
"Just Like Us" (1965) - Singles: "Steppin' Out", "Just Like Me" 
Drake Levin is drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces, and later joins Brotherhood.